LED TV 1080 or 720p

[s2t]

Decided I better move away from my cathode ray tv!!!!
Anyway will just use the TV for watching programmes and dvds - no gaming, no internet
Am looking a some of the John Lewis 'special offers'
These are the two I have narrowed it down to
Samsung UE40D5003B LED HD 1080p TV, 40 Inch with Built-in Freeview
http://www.johnlewis.com/231456276/Product.aspx
or
Panasonic Viera TX-L32X3 LED HD 720p TV, 32 Inch with Built-in Freeview HD
http://www.johnlewis.com/231342228/Product.aspx

the Panasonic seems to get better reviews but has the lower 720p
Just wondered what your views or even alternatives are at roughly £400 of course intend to go and look/hear before final purchase
Cheers

[FlossyThePig]

In practice you probably won't notice the difference between 720p and 1080p. As staff at JL are not on a commission their advice is usually quite impartial.

Unless they actually connect a blu-ray player to the sets, neither of the ones you are interested in will be displaying a 1080p signal. Most sets will probably be displaying SD only.

Before going work out your actual viewing distance and try and replicate it in the shop. This may mean standing in front of a different row of TVs and looking over them to the set you are interested in.

[bristolracer]

I see you are comparing a 32 inch to a 40 inch?

That in itself will make quite a difference.

I have a good quality 32 inch but am finding that now i have changed to sky hd i would like a larger set eg 40 or 42 inches when watching the nature programmes.

[Apache]

I recently got one of these

http://www.bonusdivine.com/pn43d490a1dxza-samsung-...

It's absolutely stunning

[s2t]

I think I have now discounted the samsung as there are not many good reviews now looking at a 37 inch LG 1080p

[cjs]

Unless you have Sky HD or similar then you should be looking at a Tv with Freeview HD, I don't understand why they are still making SD Freeview TV's.

[bristolracer]

cjs said:

Unless you have Sky HD or similar then you should be looking at a Tv with Freeview HD, I don't understand why they are still making SD Freeview TV's.

Because even with HD freeview you will only get the sevices offered which are bbc one, bbc hd, itv,channel 4. All others are still in SD and are very unlikley to go HD as there is not the bandwidth to accomodate them all in HD. The HD mux carries 4 channels whereas the SDN mux carries 26 channels.
A lot of people dont even know that to watch HD freeview (assuming you have an HD tuner ) that you need to use different channel numbers!